Woldemar von Biedermann

Woldemar Gustav Freiherr von Biedermann ( born March 5, 1817 in Marienberg, † February 6, 1903 in Dresden) was a lawyer, literary historian and Goethe scholar. As a pseudonym he used the name Ottomar Föhrau.

Life and work

The son of a lawyer and politician Gustav Heinrich Freiherr von Biedermann studied in Leipzig and Heidelberg from 1836 to 1839 and joined the law, after he had been some time Advokat, 1845 in the Saxon government service. In 1849 he was employed by the railways as a government commissioner at the Board of the Chemnitz- Riesa Railway Company, in 1851 as a railroad director in Chemnitz, 1858 in Leipzig; In 1869 he was appointed to the Privy Fiscal Council and Deputy Director General of the Royal Saxon State Railways. His son Flodoard of Biedermann urged him to publish his collected records of the conversations of Goethe. This work was published in 1889-1896 in 10 volumes.

He published besides many partly poetic, partly technical literature is about 180 contributions to the Goethe- literature and edited several volumes of the Weimar Sophie edition of Goethe's works, for which he received an honorary doctorate in 1865 by the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Leipzig. Biedermann was also co-founder of the Goethe Society, whose long BOARDS he belonged and he was a member of the Dresden literary and artistic society of the " four tens", which included among other things a literary scholar Hettner and Robert Prölß.

Biedermann died in 1903 in Dresden and was buried in the old cemetery Anne. His grave was destroyed in 1945.

Works

  • Goethe and Leipzig ( Leipzig, 1865, 2 vols );
  • In Goethe's poems (Leipzig, 1870);
  • Goethe and Dresden (Leipzig 1875);
  • Goethe and the Saxon Erzgebirge (Stuttgart 1877);
  • Goethe- research. 3 volumes. Leipzig: Biedermann 1879-1889
  • Goethe's conversations. Total output. Founded by Woldemar Frhr. Biedermann. Newly published by Flodoard of Biedermann, composed by Max Morris, Hans Gerhard Graef and Leonard Leopold Mackall. 2nd, revised and greatly enlarged edition by. Leipzig: Biedermann 1909-1911
  • Goethe's letters to Eichstädt. Berlin: Hempel 1872
  • Goethe's Correspondence with Friedrich Rochlitz. Leipzig: Biedermann, 1887
  • Lecture, held on 11 April 1892 Goethe in Dresden. in: Dresden history leaves. 1892, No. 3, pp. 33 -S. 41 (factory view SLUB )
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